General Notes¶

Import required libraries¶

Load Data¶

In which faculty are you based?¶

Select as many as apply

Which of the following organisations usually fund your research?¶

Each individual respondant could specify multiple funding sources. ToDo: Further data cleaning and grouping of responses.

What is your job title?¶

Do you use research software?¶

"Research software" is any software you have used in the generation of a result that you expect to appear in a publication. This might be anything from a few-line script to clean some data, to a fully fledged software suite. It includes code you have written yourself and code written by someone else.

How important is research software to your work?¶

1: Not at all

5: Vital

Have you developed your own research software?¶

How do you rate your software development expertise?¶

1: Beginner. 5: Professional.

Do you feel that you have received sufficient training to develop reliable software?¶

Would you be interested in the university helping you commercialise some of your research software?¶

Do you feel that your research software is ready to be shared with a commercial partner?¶

Have you used ShARC/Bessemer, the University's high-performance computing (HPC) system?¶

How confident are you with the following technologies? [Version control]¶

How confident are you with the following technologies? [Continuous integration]¶

How confident are you with the following technologies? [Unit testing]¶

How would you rate the university's current level of support for your software-development needs?¶

Have you or someone in your group ever hired someone specifically to develop software?¶

Have you ever included costs for software development in a funding proposal?¶

Check all that apply

How suitable would the following models be for your software development needs? [Hire a full-time software developer]¶

How suitable would the following models be for your software development needs? [Recruit a developer (or fractional FTE equivalent of a developer) from a central University of Sheffield pool as needed]¶